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Week in Review, December 15th-19th
This week on hbook.com... From the November/December 2025 Horn Book Magazine: Board Book Roundup: That's About the Size of It by Rachel G. Payne Calling Caldecott: Cat Nap by Marva Anne Hinton Second-round nomination results! by Kitty Flynn Reviews of the Week: Starred Picture Book: Moon Song by Michaela Goade...
Board Book Roundup: That's About the Size of It
What is the ideal trim size for baby books? An average of six-by-six inches is what I see most often. It’s a good size for perusing, carrying, and even stacking by board books’ very young audience. I wonder if this convention harks back to Beatrix Potter, whose own picture books...
Table of Contents: November/December 2025 Horn Book Magazine
Cover from The Giving Flower by Alda P. Dobbs. Illustration © 2025 by Emily Mendoza. Features Curating The Art of Grace Lin by Melissa Hung A look at an exhibit on view at The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art. Won't You Miss the Polar Bears? by Martha Meyer Examining the...
Preview November/December 2025 Horn Book Magazine
Cover art by Emily Mendoza from The Giving Flower written by Alda P. Dobbs. Melissa Hung on curating The Art of Grace Lin for The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art. Martha Meyer examines the Blueberry Awards Committee’s anti-anxiety criteria for nature and climate books. A Publisher’s Perspective: Jason Low...
The Writer's Page: The Impossibility of Writing Board Books
I started writing books for very young children in anger. A strange admission, I know. I was receiving a wobbly stack of board books to review for Kirkus each month, and I often vented about how developmentally inappropriate many were. I got holiday titles that read like extra-thick greeting cards...
Week in Review, March 24th-28th
This week on hbook.com... From the March/April 2025 Horn Book Magazine: Horn Book Reminiscences: Horn Book Editors I've Known and Loved Before by Cathryn M. Mercier Board Book Roundup: The Fabric of Baby Books by Rachel G. Payne Out of the Box: Baseball and unicorns by Elissa...
Board Book Roundup: The Fabric of Baby Books
Which material to use to help the printed word survive rambunctious young readers is a long-running question, with solutions ranging from the translucent mica of early hornbooks to Tyvek in twenty-first-century “Indestructibles.” One solution is fabric. Books for children were first printed on cotton or linen in 1902 by toy...
Table of Contents: March/April 2025 Horn Book Magazine
Cover from Head Full of Clouds by Joanne Schwartz. Illustration © 2025 by Afsaneh Sanei. Published by Tundra Books. Features Ruth Krauss and Crockett Johnson by Betsy Groban Scenes from a remarkable marriage. Generational Ties in Children’s Book Translation by Emma Otheguy An interview with translator Emily Carrero Mustelier....
2024 in review
Photo: Bet_Noire/Getty Images. Belated welcome, 2025! We recently closed our next issue, so we finally have time to revisit everything that happened in 2024 — and what an exciting centennial year it was! We always enjoy looking back on the past twelve months in the world of children's and YA...
Preview March/April 2025 Horn Book Magazine
Cover from Head Full of Clouds by Joanne Schwartz. Illustration © 2025 by Afsaneh Sanei. Published by Tundra Books. Betsy Groban shares scenes from the remarkable marriage of Ruth Krauss and Crockett Johnson. Author Emma Otheguy interviews translator Emily Carrero Mustelier. “When Fingers Are Fearless”: a poem by Shifa Saltagi...
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